Sunday, January 20, 2008

When I was in my teens and I first saw "The Birds" in a high school film class, it pissed me off that Suzanne Pleshette's character of Annie died yet Tippi Hedren's character lived. Hedren was a cold fish to me, but Suzanne was smoking hot!

I think Walt Disney knew what he was doing when he cast her in movies like "The Ugly Dachshund", "Blackbeard's Ghost", and "The Adventures Of Bullwhip Griffin". She was an asset that would be sure to keep hold of the boys in his target audience as they matured.

As Emily Hartley on 'The Bob Newhart Show', the Hartleys' relationship was one of the few "adult" ones in sitcoms of that time. And you knew Dr. Bob was an incredibly lucky man in all aspects. Okay, yeah. I'm talking about great sex with his wife.

Other highlights for me in her Toobworld career included the pilot for 'The Wild, Wild West' and an episode of 'The Single Guy' in which she played Jonathan Silverman's mother - and he accidentally stabbed her with a knife while they were making dinner. And as the estranged wife of James Garner's character when he was brought in to help bolster '8 Simple Rules...' after the death of John Ritter, Ms. Pleshette showed that the rapport between her and Garner in "Support Your Local Gunfighter" was the real deal.

Suzanne Pleshette died yesterday at the age of 70 due to respiratory failure; less than two weeks before her birthday and less than a year after her husband Tom Poston.

Just An Old Cowhand On The TiVo Grande

As the Trickster once said, "Reality is boring, that's why I change it whenever I can."
I'm just "The Man Who Viewed Too Much", and "Inner Toob" is a blog exploring and celebrating the 'reality' of an alternate universe in which everything that ever happened on TV actually takes place.
Most of my theories about the TV Universe come from thinking inside the box and thus can't be proven. But I've never been one to shy away from a tall tale.....
Remember: "The more you watch, the more you've seen!"